2.8 or 2.81 for beginner
There is no harm in trying out 2.81 and exploring Blender.
If you are new to Blender, go to page 4 for the playlists of tutorials, which I consider the BEST for absolute beginners. 
Blender Tutorials scrapbook 

Some addons or plugins get regularly updated. I have two versions of Blender on my PC: 2.79 and 2.8. I just changed the name of folder containing 2.79b files, before downloading 2.8, as I wanted to keep 2.79b because of old addons and Blend files.